Little Man Little Man: A Story of Childhood is a 1976 children's novel written by James Baldwin and Yoran Cazac TJ recounts what he experiences while playing ball outside.

TJ plays ball with his friends outside; he grazes his knee, then hurts his buttocks.

They go to Mr Man's and Miss Lee covers up his gash, starts crying, then gives him a Pepsi Cola.

In addition to TJ, a four-year-old boy from Harlem, there are seven characters:[1] Little Man Little Man: A Story of Childhood was reviewed as "experimental, enigmatic picture book that straddled the line between children’s and adult literature," and after its initial publication in 1976, it soon went out of print.

[2] In 2018, Duke University Press published a new edition, with an afterword by Aisha Karefa-Smart, Baldwin's niece.